Summarise approach and decisions for internationalisation in the Design System backlog

[vanitabarrett]

What

Write up a summary of our final approach for internationalisation and why we decided to follow that approach. Might also be a good opportunity to talk about the other things we tried and explain why those don't work. Also anything we've decided not to do (e.g: because it's not part of our MVP solution; because it's out of scope).

Why

We should try and be transparent about the decisions we make, to help people understand why we've done things a certain way.
This may also help as somewhere to refer people to if we get questions on support.

Who needs to work on this

Content, Developer

Who needs to review this

Content, Developer

Done when

• On Github, add backlog comment in backlog, e.g Supporting multiple languages govuk-design-system-backlog#99

[kellylee-gds]

From mid-sprint review:

• Look through Google Drive for relevant documentation related to i18n. Pull information from docs we think will be useful to users
• Check whether we have guidance in internal docs about how to translate components (if not, this feels like it's own card tbh)
• Use decision summaries published previously as a template for recording this information (eg Cookie Banner)

@claireashworth

[claireashworth]

Draft sent for comment and review.

[kellylee-gds]

This reads really well to me, thanks for sharing @claireashworth. @romaricpascal please can you also review.

[romaricpascal]

That was some thorough gathering of all the I18n related issues! Cheers @claireashworth! Added a couple of comments on the doc so we can clarify a few things and then we should be in a good place.

[claireashworth]

We just need to decide where we're publishing this information. I previously suggested adding it to this conversation thread - alphagov/govuk-design-system-backlog#99
Any other thoughts?

[36degrees]

I think the backlog issue makes as much sense as anywhere.

I have added a few (hopefully minor!) comments to the Google Doc, but generally think it's looking really good. Thanks for doing all the hard work to pull all of that together, @claireashworth! 🙌🏻

[claireashworth]

Comments completed and summary published on #99 'Supporting multiple languages'.